Graduate student Wei Wang has received the 2011 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad from the China Scholarship Council. This competitive honor rewards academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas.
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Biology majors Ben Henderson and Abigail Shelton are spending the summer in Huntsville, on research internships with Hudson-Alpha Institute.
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Graduate student John Pfeiffer has won the best student presentation award at the annual meeting of the American Malacological Society.
Graduate student Nathan Roberts has published a review article in the journal Disease Models and Mechanisms. The article, “Maple syrup urine disease: new insights from a zebrafish model” was an assignment for a recent University class Disease Models and Mechanisms, taught by Prof. Guy Caldwell.
Dr. John L. Clark discovered and described a new plant species, Gasteranthus diverticularis, from a remote lowland rainforest in southern Ecuador. The new species is known from one population near the border of the Parque Nacional Podocarpus. The name reflects the resemblance of the flower’s ventral pouch with lateral protrusions to diverticula, a circumscribed pouch or sac that branches out from a hollow organ or structure. A photograph of the flower was featured on the cover of the journal Brittonia.
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Dr. Arthur Benke has been awarded the 2012 Award of Excellence in Benthic Science by the Society for Freshwater Science. Dr. Benke was recognized for his work on secondary production of benthic freshwater invertebrate communities, and for his work in North American river conservation.
Mary Jo Modica, Horticulturist and director of the University Arboretum has been awarded the Dr. Minnie C. Miles Endowed Excellence Award. The Miles Award, established in 1995, honors exempt, non-faculty administrative employees who have performed in an exemplary manner, exceeding the expectations set for their position and fostering the mission of the University. The award is named honoring Dr. Minnie C. Miles, a long-term business faculty member who began her lifetime of service to The University of Alabama in 1942 […]
MicroGreen Technologies, a research team headed by Dr. Robert Martinez, has won a $30,000 grant in the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama’s business plan competition in Birmingham. Dr. Martinez is a post-doctoral fellow in the Sobecky lab.
James Anderson was awarded first place in the Biological Sciences division of the Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Scholars and Bridge to the Doctorate Research Conference. James is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Janis O¹Donnell.
The annual Frontiers in Biology Research Colloquium was held on Friday 23 March 2012. The following students were recognized for excellence in research. Senior Ph.D. student winner Phillips Akinwole Sediment microbial communities form an important component of stream ecosystems yet the natural variations in stream microbial biomass and community structure across spatial scales ranging from biogeographical patterns to difference within and among riffles are not yet fully described. As part of my PhD work I examined microbial biomass and community […]
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